By George Alleyne
Responding to a growing
demographics imbalance in
which the retired and close
to retirement members of the
population are growing while
the number of working-age
nationals is dwindling, Barbados
will soon open its doors to
skilled labour, especially persons
from the Caribbean Community.
This situation caused Minister
of Home Affairs, Edmund
Hinkson, to say recently, “I
as minister of immigration
am firmly of the view that we
have too small a population for
Barbados to sustain and grow
this economy and we will have
‘managed migration’ into this
country especially among our
fellow Caribbean people who
are productive, who will make
a mark.”
He said that the island, however,
will not be open to “those
who are going to be a drain on
our economy or public purse,”
but will be welcoming “those
who are productive, who have
skills”.
“We need more young people
in this country in their
most productive age.”
Hinkson’s revelation of the
island’s intent found support
in fellow government minister,
Marsha Caddle, who has said,
“we’ve realised that the population
base of the country is
not sufficient to generate the
revenue that we need to be able
to contribute to the standard of
living that we want to have.”
The junior economic affairs
minister said that 20 to 25
years ago the population group
between ages 20 and 29 was the
largest, however, “that same
cohort is now still the largest,
but it is 50 years old. And the
20 to 29 age group is now is
much smaller.”
With Barbados restructuring
its flagging economy to
make it welcoming to investors,
and a number of major
construction projects set to
begin this year, she said, “it is
not just a question of diversifying
the economy and having a
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revenue-positive policy …but
it is also a question of making
sure you have the population
base to support it.”
This unevenness in the
island’s population was the
reason that Ronald Jones, a
minister in the former government,
had pleaded with Barbadians
to make more babies
to counter the lowering birth
rate, which in turn leads to a
reduced workforce.
“A declining population will
have an impact on what we do
to support older generations
and national development as a
whole,” Jones had said.
But Hinkson dismissed that
as the solution for Barbados’
immediate need for a larger
workforce.
“We’re not going to do like
what the then minister of
education said two or three
years ago that people must
get more children because
they will take 20 years plus
nine months before a child
might become productive if
conceived today,” the home
Barbados Minister of Home Affairms, Edmund Hinkson.
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affairs minister said.
Barbados’s soon-to-be
implemented programme of
‘managed migration’ should
provide pointers to sister
CARICOM nations on how
to implement the grouping’s
policy of the right of skilled
nationals to work in most of
the 15 countries in this body.
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